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From: ckuppe@spock.UUCP (Charles A. Kupperman '87 )
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Companions and clothing removal
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Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 13:33:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 20 13:33:06 1985
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The removal of clothing by Nyssa was because of the fact that all along
when she was a companion, fans of the show classified as young and male,
kept asking, especially in Dr. Who Monthly, to put her in a skirt,
considering she wore pants after Castrovalva.  In Snakedance, JNT
"granted their wish" and decided to "show lots more leg! "  Which Sarah Sutton,
in an interview simply thought was good if it pleased the fans.  In
Terminus, they took things to extremes.  Also, fans were always begging
for pinups of Nyssa (And Tegan.)  Eventually, as one of their famous
jokes, the Monthly staff showed Nyssa and Tegan pinups in one issue...
both 100 years old, as in Mawdryn Undead!  Turlough, I think was an in-joke,
a reference back to this, and for a while there was a group dedicated to
equal rights, and insisting that Turlough, too, and even the Doctor himself,
had great legs!

Let's have a new debate:  Was Katarina really a companion?
She had the savagery of Leela, the naivete of Vicki, the courage of
Jamie, and the sweetness of Victoria.  I regret to never having seen
her, but I saw one scene with her-  the famous Kirksen airlock scene,
which I have on VHS somewhere.
Come on, let's have your opinions on Katarina- they don't have to be
firsthand, do you think she, and maybe Yates and the Master could enter
into it too, do you think they were companions or not?

Charles Kupperman,
"Doctor, sometimes you amaze me! "
"Only sometimes?"

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